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The Features section offers in-depth, editorially-led coverage of the key trends, challenges, and innovations shaping the UK hotel and hospitality sector. Designed for hoteliers, operators, and senior executives, these long-form articles provide strategic analysis, expert interviews, and practical insights across a wide range of commercial and operational themes.

Coverage includes deep dives into hotel design and refurbishment, sustainability initiatives, staff recruitment and retention, technological adoption, guest experience strategies, supply chain partnerships, and investment outlooks. With a focus on forward-looking thinking and lessons from across the sector, Features content is crafted to support better decision-making, spark new ideas, and offer context behind the headlines. Each piece is tailored to the real-world concerns of professionals running, managing, or investing in hotels.

Features

The Features section offers in-depth, editorially-led coverage of the key trends, challenges, and innovations shaping the UK hotel and hospitality sector. Designed for hoteliers, operators, and senior executives, these long-form articles provide strategic analysis, expert interviews, and practical insights across a wide range of commercial and operational themes.

Coverage includes deep dives into hotel design and refurbishment, sustainability initiatives, staff recruitment and retention, technological adoption, guest experience strategies, supply chain partnerships, and investment outlooks. With a focus on forward-looking thinking and lessons from across the sector, Features content is crafted to support better decision-making, spark new ideas, and offer context behind the headlines. Each piece is tailored to the real-world concerns of professionals running, managing, or investing in hotels.

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How to handle a general manager

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Why we need to engage men in the drive for gender parity

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Why QIT has overhauled its ‘stars and standards’

You may have read the recent article in Hotel Owner, talking about the place for Star…

Innovation key to meeting expectations of a diverse range of travellers

With more people travelling than ever before, the hospitality industry faces an increasingly…

2019 – The death of the corporate hotel?

Turn on the TV, check out the adverts at major transport hubs, scan the latest articles, and…

Hotel Refurbishments: Ibis Styles Coventry

Why was the hotel refurbished? The owners, Cannock Group and Hetherley Capital Partners,…

Why hotels should use good social media to attract millennial guests

The growth of social media has had a huge impact on people’s lives: from keeping in touch…

The challenges and pitfalls of hotel development

Where do you start in the complex world of development? Looking at all the moving parts,…

The importance of good communication

In the words of Bananarama: “It ain’t what you say; it’s the way that you say it.” All…